The most common cause of death from cancer in our population was that originating from hematopoietic organs. This is similar to findings from a cancer mortality study carried out in Ghana, in which among young people 15 to 24 years, malignancies of the hematopoietic system dominated the picture for both males and females [26]. Pulte and colleagues point out that though there has been improvement in survival rates for adolescent with hematological cancers, children and with some particular hematological cancers, even adults have a higher survival than adolescents [27]. They suggested that the worse outcome for those 15 to 24 years may be linked to social issues affecting this age group as well as other factors such as lower compliance rates. Brain cancer which was the next most common cause of cancer deaths in our study was also second and fourth in position for females and males respectively in Wiredu's study [26].